Knots

Friday Mah Jongg lessons offered Lessons for this Chinese tile game will be offered at the Susi Q from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. July 24 through Aug. 29 The cost is $35 for the entire series. To sign up, call (949) 497-2441. Knitting class begins from Knots-of-Love A knitting class taught by Dona Harman of Strands and Stitches for the Knots-of-Love Organization will take place at the Susi Q Senior Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. today, July 24 and 31. Knots-of-Love donates caps free of charge to people who are battling cancer or other life threatening illnesses or injuries.

After a 12-year romance Shelley and Laura Petrie, an openly gay couple, officially married on Friday, August 22 at the Santa Ana Courthouse and chose the Sawdust Art Festival to celebrate this romantic occasion. Following the courthouse ceremony the newly weds came directly to the summer festival to enjoy “Aloha Friday” on the Sawdust grounds, and they were among the first 500 guests, receiving floral aloha leis before picking up a “bride and bride” Polymer clay art piece from Patti’s People, which symbolized their special day. Shelley and Laura started a family in Chicago after a lengthy relationship, but federal and state laws kept the Petries from receiving the same tax and social security benefits as other married couples, which they acknowledged as a form of discrimination.

The Laguna Beach High boys? soccer team opened Orange Coast League in the past week by playing to a pair of tie scores. In their season opener against host Godinez on Jan. 9, the Breakers settled for a 2-2 tie. On Monday against host Calvary Chapel, the Breakers scored first but ended up in a 1-1 tie. Against Godinez, Laguna had several scoring opportunities in the final 15 minutes of regulation, but couldn?t find the net. Bryce Healy and Tommy Hopper scored goals for the Breakers.

Suzie Harrison Making sure their compasses were aligned properly, the small sailors mapped their navigation, checking the latitude and longitude, in preparation for their journey. They were to follow the same route that Richard Henry Dana took from Boston to California in the early 1830s on the tall ship Pilgrim. The sailors in this case were fifth-graders at Top of the World Elementary School working on a three-week course in which they studied Dana's travels to learn about science, math, history, social studies and language.

Suzie Harrison Tying the knot has an unexpected meaning for Rosie Haynes' Top of the World Elementary School fifth-grade class. Instead of having anything to do with marriage, it's a skill the students are learning as they study writer and explorer Richard Henry Dana. "Students get to relive and experience the harsh life of what it was like to be a sailor aboard [Dana's ship] the Pilgrim," Haynes said. "In preparation for the overnight [stay on the replica ship]

The Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot asked Top of the World fifth-graders preparing for a field trip aboard the Pilgrim ship: 'What are you looking forward to about the experience?' "I'm looking forward to seeing where all the stuff is located ... I've learned it, but want to see it. I want to be the crew in the galley because that's where they make food, and I love to cook." MARINA PAUL, 10 "I'm looking forward to a lot ... like living history and what the Pilgrim is really like.

"Honor to a Spaniard ... is as real a thing as water, wine or olive oil." — Ernest Hemingway "Yeah, make that a double, Nick... with two olives and a twist." — Anonymous From the desert to the sea, the olive tree has become an icon of Southern California. And rightfully so. The beauty of its gnarled trunks and willow-like foliage has been appreciated for centuries. The olive was brought to Mexico by Spaniards and then on to Alta California for its oil. The olive tree is remarkably long-lived — some of the original trees planted by missionaries are still in existence.

Steve Kawaratani "I hold the olive in my hand. My words are as full of peace as matter." -- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it." -- RODNEY DANGERFIELD From cottage gardens to mansion gardens, the olive is symbolic of Laguna's gracious climate. However, the beauty of its gnarled trunks and willow-like foliage has been appreciated for centuries. The olive was introduced to Mexico by Spaniards and later on to California for its fruit and oil. The olive tree is remarkably long-lived.

I hit the wall Tuesday, hard, after being on watch Monday morning from 6 a.m. to noon and again from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. I awoke feeling groggy, tired and grumpy. The fast-paced drizzle, gray and cold skies didn't help matters much. It only feeds into this feeling of isolation. The bad weather has returned. If our sailboat were a pinball machine, we would have been on full tilt days ago. Right now, as I write, we are stuck on the port side (left) doing just more than 6 knots in 30 plus knots winds.

Friday Mah Jongg lessons offered Lessons for this Chinese tile game will be offered at the Susi Q from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. July 24 through Aug. 29 The cost is $35 for the entire series. To sign up, call (949) 497-2441. Knitting class begins from Knots-of-Love A knitting class taught by Dona Harman of Strands and Stitches for the Knots-of-Love Organization will take place at the Susi Q Senior Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. today, July 24 and 31. Knots-of-Love donates caps free of charge to people who are battling cancer or other life threatening illnesses or injuries.

The Laguna Beach High boys? soccer team opened Orange Coast League in the past week by playing to a pair of tie scores. In their season opener against host Godinez on Jan. 9, the Breakers settled for a 2-2 tie. On Monday against host Calvary Chapel, the Breakers scored first but ended up in a 1-1 tie. Against Godinez, Laguna had several scoring opportunities in the final 15 minutes of regulation, but couldn?t find the net. Bryce Healy and Tommy Hopper scored goals for the Breakers.

After a 12-year romance Shelley and Laura Petrie, an openly gay couple, officially married on Friday, August 22 at the Santa Ana Courthouse and chose the Sawdust Art Festival to celebrate this romantic occasion. Following the courthouse ceremony the newly weds came directly to the summer festival to enjoy “Aloha Friday” on the Sawdust grounds, and they were among the first 500 guests, receiving floral aloha leis before picking up a “bride and bride” Polymer clay art piece from Patti’s People, which symbolized their special day. Shelley and Laura started a family in Chicago after a lengthy relationship, but federal and state laws kept the Petries from receiving the same tax and social security benefits as other married couples, which they acknowledged as a form of discrimination.